The purpose of this newsletter is to boost awareness of opportunities in translational hearing research and share updates and information on preclinical and clinical research to develop therapeutics to restore hearing or silence tinnitus.

In the lead up to the 2nd International Conference on Hyperacusis (July 09-10, 2015, London, UK) the ICH2 NEWSLETTER will be updating you with news relevant to hyperacusis plus interviews with experts, patients as well as news from around the world to help put research outcomes into perspective.

The Tinnitus Research Initiative has just released a smartphone app that allows to track the tinnitus during the everyday routine. The TrackYourTinnitus app is available in the iTunes® App StoreSM and the Google PlayTM store in English and German language. Please register at the website www.trackyourtinnitus.org

The Online Journal Audiology Worldnews published a summary of the speech that Berthold Langguth held on the TINNET COST action BM1306 during the 8th International TRI Tinnitus Conference from 10-13 March in Auckland, New Zealand. read more at Audiology Worldnews

The proposal “Better Understanding the Heterogeneity of Tinnitus to Improve and Develop New Treatments – TINNET” has been approved by the COST Committee of Senior Officials. This project will help to improve our knowledge about tinnitus, the treatment of the tinnitus patients and increases the already fruitful cooperation among tinnitus researches in Europe any further. We are now inviting tinnitus researchers from as many european countries as possible to participate in the project.

In the recent issue of Nature Biotechnology Christopher Cederroth et al. highlight the discrepancy between the high socioeconomic relevance of tinnitus and the very limited amount of public funding. The Tinnitus Research Initative is mentioned as an example how private donors try to approach this neglected field in order to attract the industry and public funding.